A pretty damned good look back... and forward. I was 27 when this came out, and I remember it instantly made me feel old. I was past the point of being 'new' at the career game, but StEF shown a light on this 'terrifying event' as if one misstep would prove to be a certain unredeemable curse upon your life if you got it wrong. But one of the reasons it made me feel old, is that it seemed to kill off the previous generations' Woodstock ideology as if St. Elmo himself was taken out to sea and a giant cast-iron peace sign was shackled to his ankle and thrown overboard. No more 'making the world better' as you point out... just let's get working on the investment portfolio. The 'appeal' I thought was all the middle class kids in the theaters gawking at Georgetown rich kids with all the advantages one could ask for... still fuck it up.
I recently watched this movie and thought it was just completely awful. Shockingly so. I was a teen during the 80's and always heard that this was a great movie about my generation. All of the characters were just terrible people and they all treated each other terrible. Well, maybe I didn't go the college party route like others, I don't know. I went to a religious private college and got my degree and I have had a great career and life. I never partied and never wanted to. I have never felt any need to drink or smoke. I enjoy being healthy and still going to the gym. I see people like the characters in this movie and I see them as complete losers. Even if they go on to success, they are going to be miserable. I've lived long enough to see how people like this turn out.
I love this movie and will continue to contend it's the zeitgeist of the 80s as Reality Bites is for the early 90s. My subjective fondness aside, I think there is some brilliance in the film. We're presented with a cast of 7 soon-to-be stars with chemistry, looks, and interesting lives. These positive qualities coupled with the fact that they're presented to us as our main characters suggests they're our protagonists. But their battles are internal so we end up rooting for their personal success. The brilliance is that despite us rooting for these characters each comes with a serious flaw. Your video did a great job summarizing them. I personally think Demi Moore's character is the worst with McCarthy being the most benign. These were overt, unveiled characteristics that everyone recognized, and yet come the end of the film we feel bad for Billy leaving and have resonance with the gang going separate ways. Schumacher gave us a dysfunctional cast that we sympathize with and has come to embody a decade. That's brilliant.
Well I was in Washington DC in 1985 and a young adult and I would say this is sort of accurate. These characters are caricatures of what people were sort of like or thought was cool as Reaganism was starting to take hold. Although I assure you no one was taking gender studies or any other fluff like that yet. This was the MBA, politician and law school crowd who had decided greed was good and making money was their goal. I was only there briefly for a job and decided sociopathy was not for me. But this movie does show kind of the very beginnings of a large part of the world population deciding money is more important than ethics, survival of the fittest etc. That part is accurate.
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A pretty damned good look back... and forward. I was 27 when this came out, and I remember it instantly made me feel old. I was past the point of being 'new' at the career game, but StEF shown a light on this 'terrifying event' as if one misstep would prove to be a certain unredeemable curse upon your life if you got it wrong. But one of the reasons it made me feel old, is that it seemed to kill off the previous generations' Woodstock ideology as if St. Elmo himself was taken out to sea and a giant cast-iron peace sign was shackled to his ankle and thrown overboard. No more 'making the world better' as you point out... just let's get working on the investment portfolio. The 'appeal' I thought was all the middle class kids in the theaters gawking at Georgetown rich kids with all the advantages one could ask for... still fuck it up.
I recently watched this movie and thought it was just completely awful. Shockingly so. I was a teen during the 80's and always heard that this was a great movie about my generation. All of the characters were just terrible people and they all treated each other terrible.
Well, maybe I didn't go the college party route like others, I don't know.
I went to a religious private college and got my degree and I have had a great career and life. I never partied and never wanted to. I have never felt any need to drink or smoke. I enjoy being healthy and still going to the gym.
I see people like the characters in this movie and I see them as complete losers. Even if they go on to success, they are going to be miserable.
I've lived long enough to see how people like this turn out.
The song was actually written for Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion world tour
I admit it's a great soundtrack.
I love this movie and will continue to contend it's the zeitgeist of the 80s as Reality Bites is for the early 90s. My subjective fondness aside, I think there is some brilliance in the film. We're presented with a cast of 7 soon-to-be stars with chemistry, looks, and interesting lives. These positive qualities coupled with the fact that they're presented to us as our main characters suggests they're our protagonists. But their battles are internal so we end up rooting for their personal success. The brilliance is that despite us rooting for these characters each comes with a serious flaw. Your video did a great job summarizing them. I personally think Demi Moore's character is the worst with McCarthy being the most benign. These were overt, unveiled characteristics that everyone recognized, and yet come the end of the film we feel bad for Billy leaving and have resonance with the gang going separate ways. Schumacher gave us a dysfunctional cast that we sympathize with and has come to embody a decade. That's brilliant.
A solid cast to be sure. I think Winningham might be more benign than McCarthy, but it's a toss up.
@@thegasmaskpodcast She’s an enabler and a weakling. McCarthy is just a loser.
Well I was in Washington DC in 1985 and a young adult and I would say this is sort of accurate. These characters are caricatures of what people were sort of like or thought was cool as Reaganism was starting to take hold. Although I assure you no one was taking gender studies or any other fluff like that yet. This was the MBA, politician and law school crowd who had decided greed was good and making money was their goal. I was only there briefly for a job and decided sociopathy was not for me. But this movie does show kind of the very beginnings of a large part of the world population deciding money is more important than ethics, survival of the fittest etc. That part is accurate.
I don’t think ppl thought it was accurate. It’s all about the pretty brat packers and this being the 80s. That’s all.